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CHANGE DEFAULT MEASUREMENT TO INCHES.
When you create a new document, InDesign asks you to specify the page dimensions and margins in points and picas, units of measure used frequently in the printing and graphic design industries. If you want the new document dialogue box to prompt you for these dimensions in inches, do the following --

  1. Launch InDesign, but do not open any document.
  2. Under the "Edit" menu (Windows) or "InDesign" menu (Macintosh), open "Preferences," Units and Increments."
  3. Set both the horizontal and vertical measurement unit to inches.
  4. This change will not affect any existing InDesign documents, but will make inches the default measurement system for all subsequently created files.

If you make this change while a document is open, the change will affect only the document you are in while making the change.

COPY/PASTE TO SAME POSITION ON DIFFERENT PAGE.
Sometimes you want to Cut or Copy an item on one page and Paste it into the same position on another. That's the function of the "Paste in Place" command under the "Edit" menu. Here is how it works --

  1. Select the item you want to Cut or Copy.
  2. Choose "Cut" or "Copy" from the "Edit" Menu (Cut deletes the original, Copy does not).
  3. Turn to the page onto which you want to Paste the item. It can be in the same or a different InDesign file.
  4. Choose "Paste in Place" from the "Edit" menu.

CREATE GUIDE THAT SPANS TWO FACING PAGES.
It's easy to pull a horizontal guideline onto a page in InDesign -- just place your mouse pointer on the ruler at the top of the window, press the left button and drag the mouse onto the page.

But often when you are working with two pages side-by-side (Facing Pages) the guide appears only on one of the two pages, and you would like to have it span both.

Here is the rule as to whether a guide appears on one or both pages --

  1. If the mouse pointer is over a page when you pull the guide from the ruler, the guide appears only on that page.
  2. If the mouse pointer is to left or right of the pages, the guide appears on both.

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